Yan Xuetong
Yán Xuétōng | |
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| 阎学通 | |
Yan in 2024 | |
| Born | December 7, 1952 Tianjin, China |
| Education | Heilongjiang University (BA) University of International Relations (MA) University of California, Berkeley (PhD) |
| Occupations | Professor, dean |
| Political party | Chinese Communist Party |
Yan Xuetong (Chinese: 阎学通; pinyin: Yán Xuétōng; born 7 December 1952) is a Chinese political scientist and serves as a distinguished professor and dean of the Institute of International Relations at Tsinghua University. Yan is one of the major Chinese figures in the study of international relations (IR). He is the founder of 'moral realism', a neoclassical realist theoretical paradigm in IR theory. His moral realist theory is based on political determinism.
In 2008, he was named as one of world's Top 100 Global Thinkers by the Foreign Policy. He is the only political scientist listed as Most Cited Chinese Researchers by Elsevier during 2014–2017.